Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Gilles Paquet-Brenner (born 14 September 1974) is a French director and screenwriter. He is the son of the opera singer Ève Brenner. Paquet-Brenner's first feature film in 2001, Pretty Things, won an award at the Deauville American Film Festival. In 2007, Paquet-Brenner directed the low-budget and direct-to-DVD but generally positively received film, Walled In. In 2015, he directed the mystery film Dark Places starring Charlize Theron and based on the novel written by Gillian Flynn.